Tavares landlord indicted on first-degree murder for shooting tenant who was holding granddaughter

TAVARES — A landlord was indicted today for premeditated first-degree murder, accused of shooting to death a tenant who was holding his 18-month-old granddaughter.

Pablo Infante, 46, had shot Jeffrey Allen Henrickson in the Sunset Grove neighborhood south of Tavares on Oct. 24, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said.

Henrickson, 47, and his wife had just arrived home from dinner and he was taking his granddaughter out of their car, deputies said.

Infante went to his home to get his semiautomatic pistol then chased Henrickson around his car and shot him several times, deputies said. Infante later told authorities that he told Henrickson to put down the granddaughter and talk to him like a man.

A Lake County grand jury today indicted Infante on one count of premeditated first-degree murder. That charge carries a minimum penalty of life in prison or the death sentence.